API | Application Programming Interfaces --> see the section "What is API"? |
API call | A process of sending a request to an API endpoint and getting a response |
API endpoint / operation | A single instance of API with a unique address (URL). Sending a required input to that URL triggers some command within your system and returns an output about a successful result or failure |
CLI | Command-line interface |
Client | A general term to identify someone or something calling your API |
HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
IDL | Interface Definition Language |
MSA | Microservice Architecture |
OAI | OpenAPI Initiative |
REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
RPC | Remote Procedural Call |
SaaS | Software-as-a-Service |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |